On Aug 13, 2013, at 11:49 AM, Crystal Beasley <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Eric Rescorla <[email protected]> wrote: > > > This seems like it needs more detail. Suppose that I am syncing my passwords > > and I decide to stop. What do you expect happens? > > I expect it would be the same thing as what happens if you detach Sync on a > device entirely, only applied to a single data type. If that sounds > nonsensical, let me know what would make more sense. > > It doesn't sound nonsensical, but we've just reduced to a previously > unsolved problem. What happens then? Do we forget? > > > > We delete that data off the servers. The data remains locally on each device, > it's just not syncing anymore. Warner or Ckarlof care to verify that? > > c Yeah, as long as this data type selection mechanism is not suggested to be per-device, then yes, we remove the data from the servers, possibly with user confirmation to indicate that's what we're doing. An advanced version of this might be to temporarily suspend syncing of a datatype, where the devices would just stop fetching/updating the data type, but we leave the server data alone. The latter is sort of what I think Deb meant when she said "detach a device, but only with respect to one data type". Both approaches also require an update to the service discovery information for the user, to signal to other clients that they should stop syncing the data type. -chris
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